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Wednesday 21 September 2016
08:30	Coffee, Tea and Networking
Session 5:   Regenerative medicine advances in biomaterials and their application Chair: Professor Sue Kimber, University of Manchester
09:00	Professor Fergal O’Brien  Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Keynote Lecture: Gene activated scaffolds for enhanced tissue repair
09:30	Professor Richard Oreffo  Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration, University of Southampton Topic Specific Talk: Size matters – Harnessing biomimetic materials for skeletal tissue engineering
09:50	Dr David Hay  MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh Topic Specific Talk: Stem Cell Derived Hepatocytes for Cell Based Screening and Tissue Repair
10:10	Dr Richard Day Division of Medicine, University College London Short Presentation: Efficient Manufacturing and Delivery of Skeletal Muscle Myoblasts
10:20	Professor Rachel Williams Institute of ageing and chronic disease, University of Liverpool Short Presentation: Peptide gels for corneal endothelial cell transplantation
10:30	Coffee/Tea
Session 6:   Regenerative medicine approaches for endogenous repair, transplantation and regenerative biology (2) Chair: Professor Kevin Shakesheff, University of Nottingham
11:00	Professor Kevin Eggan  Harvard University, USA Keynote Lecture: Inherited and acquired genetic variation in human embryonic stem cells and its implications for regenerative medicine
11:30	Professor Giovanna Lombardi  MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London Topic Specific Talk: Immunogenicity of allogeneic iPS-derived cells: recipient dendritic cells are the key
11:50	Professor Robin Franklin  WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge Topic Specific Talk: CNS remyelination – from mechanisms to medicines
12:10	Professor Alicia El Haj Institute of Science & Technology in Medicine, Keele University Short Presentation: Engineering solutions to regenerative medicine challenges
12:20	Dr Raul Elgueta Rebolledo King’s College London Short Presentation: Immune characterisation of iPS-derived Hepatocytes
12:30	Lunch
Session 7:   Recent advances in clinical approaches to therapies Chair: Professor Peter Andrews, University of Sheffield
13:30	Professor Robin Ali  UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Keynote Lecture: Retinal repair through hES-derived photoreceptor transplantation
14:00	Professor Dr Petra Reinke  Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies, Germany Topic Specific Talk: Is cell therapy a command strategy in solid organ transplantation?
14:20	Professor Andrew Baker  University of Edinburgh Topic Specific Talk: Strategies for promoting repair and regeneration in response to vascular injury
14:40	Dr Anthony Hollander  Azellon Short Presentation: Using MSCs to repair torn meniscal cartilage
14:50	Dr John Sinden Reneuron Short Presentation: Chronic disability after stroke: Can neural stem cells provide a cure?
15:00	Coffee/Tea
Session 8: New frontiers in repair and replacement of diseased tissues and organs Chair: Steve Bates, BIA
15:30	Professor Bent Jakobsen   Immunocore Ltd Topic Specific Talk: ImmTACTM molecules: Bi-specific TCR-based Reagents for Targeted Cancer Immunotherapy
15:50	Dr Michael Roberts  Synpromics Topic Specific Talk: Synthetic Promoters: Leveraging information from the genome to optimize gene expression
16:10	Dr Martin Pule  UCL & Autolus Topic Specific Talk:
16:30	Closing remarks Dr Rob Buckle Director, UK Regenerative Medicine Platform
16:35	Meeting close

Programme Day 1

The full programme for both days can be downloaded through the link here